Rethinking Deduction Five of Plato’s Parmenides (160b5-163b6)

Authors

  • Thomas Tuozzo University of Kansas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_22_5

Keywords:

Plato, Parmenides, one, instantiation, not-being, alteration

Abstract

The fifth “deduction” in Plato’s Parmenides (160b5-163b6) concerns the consequences that follow for a (or the) one from the hypothesis that it is not. I argue that the subject of this hypothesis is, effectively, any Form, considered just insofar as it is one Form. The hypothesis, I further argue, does not concern any essential aspect of a Form, but rather posits its contingent non-instantation (“a one is not” = “a Form is not instantiated”). The motion this deduction attributes to its one is a special type of motion: motion into and out of instantiation.

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Published

2021-10-25

How to Cite

Tuozzo, T. (2021). Rethinking Deduction Five of Plato’s Parmenides (160b5-163b6). PLATO JOURNAL, 22, 69-77. https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_22_5

Issue

Vol. 22 (2021): Plato Journal #22

Section

Dossier

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